This is the way; walk in it
by Sal Huckel
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Whether you turn to the right or the left your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it’ (Isaiah 30:21).
As I read this Scripture, what stood out to me was the certainty that we have a Lord who leads us. We will think about the Lord as our Great Shepherd and his leading many times this week.
Find the words in our reading that tell us about the character of our Lord. Gracious and compassionate, he rises up, blesses us, answers us and provides for us. He binds up our wounds; he heals us.
Think about our worldly leaders. There are all kinds of leaders – some honouring God more than others, but none of them is like him in his perfection. During these difficult times, perhaps we might feel our leaders make decisions one way and then do an about-turn. They do not always know how to manage the current crisis. They do their best; they have many voices calling out to them with different priorities and ideas – and sometimes, those contradicting voices cause confusion in policy and decision-making.
Consider the image in verse 21. In a world where our leaders do not seem to know which way to go, how reassuring it is that whether we turn to the right or the left, we will hear a voice behind us saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it’! We have the Lord on our side, leading us. We must also draw one more thing from this passage as we consider his leading. We must desecrate and discard our idols. This is likely for us to be a figurative desecration – what are our idols right now? Are we putting our own health over the Great Commission? What are we holding back from God? Are we more concerned with reading the news than reading our Bible? Ask the Lord to call out to you, ‘This is the way; walk in it’. Listen to him. Not the voices on the right and the left but the Holy Spirit, the Good Shepherd. Put his leading first, throwing your idols in the trash.
Lord, I pray you will silence the voices on the left and the right, the tossing about and influences that are not of you. Renew a right spirit within me and speak to me with a clear voice: ‘This is the way; walk in it’. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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